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Summary: In paperback at last: the exuberantly praised collection of short fiction--welcomed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review--that has firmly established Rick Moody as one of the leading literary voices of his generation. . A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times bestseller. . All four of Rick Moody's previous books will be simultaneously reissued as Back Bay trade paperbacks with a fresh, uniform look (see page 31). . Rick Moody's new hardcover, a memoir entitled The Black Veil, will be published in May 2002 (see page 14)--and will no doubt receive major review attention. . He has received the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.